Lamentations 1:18-20
Easy-to-Read Version
18 Now Jerusalem says, “I refused to listen to the Lord,
so he is right for doing these things.
So listen, all you people!
Look at my pain!
My young women and men
have gone into captivity.
19 I called out to my lovers,
but they tricked me.
My priests and my elders
have died in the city.
They were looking for food for themselves.
They wanted to keep themselves alive.
20 “Look at me, Lord. I am in distress!
I am upset, as if my heart turned upside down inside of me.
I feel this way because
I have been so stubborn.
Out in the streets,
I lost my children to the swords.
Inside, it is like death.
Lamentations 1:18-20
New International Version
18 “The Lord is righteous,(A)
yet I rebelled(B) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
look on my suffering.(C)
My young men and young women
have gone into exile.(D)
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